John Snowling opened fire after arriving at Cook's Corner, an Orange County eatery popular with families and motorcycle enthusiasts. He was fatally shot by deputies after he killed three people and wounded six, including his wife.
John Snowling, 59, worked for the Ventura Police Department for more than 25 years. He was killed Wednesday night in a shootout with deputies following the bar attack.Authorities identified one of the people killed in the shooting as John Leehey, 67, of Irvine, but the two others were not publicly identified.
Mark Johnson, the M Street band pianist, said two of his band mates — guitarist Ed Means and bassist Dave Stretch — had been shot but were in stable condition at a hospital. In the early 2000s, Snowling patrolled Pacific View Mall and touted the shopping center’s safety. “This isn’t L.A., where we have shootings and stabbings,” he told a reporter.
He said she was the social one of the couple and an “absolute sweetheart,” while her husband was “a standoffish kind of person” and seemed controlling.
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